Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd only just pitched camp , but I soon had them on their way . ’ |
| 2 | They meet fairly often to play chess . ’ |
| 3 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 4 | And they went on then to consider lack of understanding of consumers about G M technology as a whole , and made recommendations for erm , er , better labelling , and for a erm , information campaign to be launched as well . |
| 5 | However , they did not always have control over the money or make the key decisions over how it was spent and distributed . |
| 6 | They did n't just have knowledge . |
| 7 | And now they did n't even have TV . |
| 8 | They did n't even have network , where grandma and grandpa lived . |
| 9 | The Labour Party says the firm continued trading without insuring holidaymakers ' money , because Mr Heseltine told them they did n't actually NEED insurance . |
| 10 | They did however eventually see World War Two service , initially with the 412th Fighter Group and its 29th , 31st and 445th Fighter Squadrons , all units being assigned to the 4th Air Force and stationed in the western United States . |
| 11 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 12 | Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series . |
| 13 | They do n't just put plaster casts on your legs for the fun of it . ’ |
| 14 | They do n't even have time to price them up before they 're gone |
| 15 | They do n't even have anger . |
| 16 | I think it 's too alien for men , they do n't even have period pains . |
| 17 | Erm by the city in the city institutions of London he 's seen as quite a a robust character but they do n't quite see eye to eye on the issues of the company . |
| 18 | No , they do n't hardly cut paper . |
| 19 | Yeah they do n't half make kitchen warm though . |
| 20 | They do n't really want change . |
| 21 | Er couple the two together they do n't really make sense because this type of experimental theatre never pays , ca n't pay . |
| 22 | After all , they do n't really need Shire Hall . |
| 23 | Cos that 's one reason a lot of Harlow people do n't know what 's on do n't erm you know they they do n't really have contact with erm they do n't always use Harvey . |
| 24 | They do n't always see eye to eye but they respect one another . |
| 25 | They do n't usually have record buttons , do they ? |
| 26 | It can be argued that a similar approach should be taken to time limit clauses , on the basis that they do not wholly exclude liability , but require action to be taken swiftly . |
| 27 | She disagrees with Leach 's statement that ‘ two-year-olds can not be good or naughty on purpose because they do not yet know right from wrong or understand what makes the difference ’ . |
| 28 | Nearly all these individuals are fully competent native speakers of British English , so they do not actually require Creole for strictly communicative purposes ; for them , Creole fulfils a number of other roles mostly related to its symbolic significance as a marker of black identity . |
| 29 | Personal goals and attitudes , often about power , are at the root of most conflict , but they do not necessarily cause conflict . |
| 30 | Many nurses , for example , give injections , supervise medication , discuss problems and act as counsellors , but they do not usually negotiate welfare benefits , arrange outings , arrange for the gas board to read the meter , go shopping with a client , and so on . |